Courtesy of: Masterworks.io Investing in multimillion-dollar paintings usually requires having a sizable amount of capital. Privately-held startup Masterworks is set out to change that. Masterworks is making the world of art a little less exclusive by offering everyday investors the chance to own a fraction of these high-priced investments with a much smaller amount of

The art press currently seems remarkably focused on the high prices fetched for work by a small set of young artists. Many of these high-priced works were previously purchased for far less. A $10 million Peter Doig painting once sold for $30,000 (or some such figure). And works by other young abstract-process-based painters that sold

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have been a hot investment theme the past couple of years. Although various uses for these cryptocurrency-based assets are still being developed, art investing has emerged as an early winner for NFT utility.  Traditional art investing is largely the realm of the super wealthy, but NFTs have opened the door for

HONG KONG, CHINA – OCTOBER 04: Visitors experience an immersive art installation titled “Machine … [+] Hallucinations Space: Metaverse” by Refik Anadol at the Digital Art Fair Asia showcasing digital and NFT art on October 4, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. The first edition of Digital Art Fair Asia is taking place in Hong Kong.

Several Masterworks investors have asked us to compare artwork and cryptocurrency from an investment standpoint. While interest in cryptocurrencies has increased over the past decade, so has an interest in art from an investment perspective, and now through Masterworks, investing in art has become more accessible to the broader investor community. But, how do the

Warren Buffett dismissed art as a bad investment nearly 60 years ago. France could have made $1 quadrillion if it had invested instead of buying the Mona Lisa, he said. Buffett described investing, valuing and building businesses, and Berkshire Hathaway as art. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while

In the fall of 2018, a Banksy work, “Love is in the Bin,” sold for US$1.4 million. Now the original buyer has put the work up for sale, and it’s expected to fetch over $5 million – that would amount to a return of more than 250% on the original investment. What if, instead of

Is art a good investment? The recent mega-auctions in New York have brought out the siren song that art often outperforms other asset classes like real estate, while the Wall Street Journal declared that art achieved a 10.6 percent return in 2018 based on Art Market Research’s Art 100 Index, outpacing all other categories. One

Dmitry Rybolovlev thought he’d been ripped off when he paid the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier $127.5 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in 2013, once he learned Bouvier had paid between $75 and $80 million for it. But after Salvator Mundi’s sale in November at Christie’s for $450.3 million, it was hard to

This article is more than 6 years old. Speculation and investment are two delicate subjects in the art market, but they are hardly novel topics. In a market celebrated for breath-taking prices for branded art trophies, art is seen as a potential hedge, an addition to an investment portfolio. There has been no shortage of